mutate
Example Sentences
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“Cells mutate all the time. It’s not as unusual as they’d have you believe in the movies.”
From Literature
Experts believe the strain has mutated to “more likely evade” immunity from the current vaccine.
From Los Angeles Times
Even worse, the dominant H3N2 strain—known as subclade K—mutated over the summer after the strains for the current flu vaccine were picked.
Most treatment strategies focus on blocking a frequently mutated cancer gene known as KRAS.
From Science Daily
This gave H3N2 another chance to mutate, which is natural for viruses, and so it did.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
